Color

#cc6238

#cc6238
hex#cc6238
rgbrgb(204, 98, 56)
hslhsl(17, 59%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.617 0.146 41.2)
Closest name: chocolate (#d2691e)Relative luminance 0.2186

Colors that go with #cc6238

Charcoal, Sea Green and Steel Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #cc6238

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#38a2cc

#cc3858 · #ccac38

#38cc62 · #6238cc

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#38ccac · #3858cc

#58cc38 · #38a2cc · #ac38cc

Contrast

#cc6238 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.91:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #bb5730 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #8e4225 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
5.37:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #d57f5d as the text (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #cc6238 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#cc6238 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cc6238
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

›analyze #cc6238 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cc6238-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md